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2018 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Lineup Details Leaked

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2018 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Lineup Details Leaked Harley-Davidson’s new Milwaukee-Eight engine will spread across the entire Dyna and Softail lineups next year Information about Harley-Davidson’s 2018 range of motorcycles have leaked on the internet, giving us some valuable information about the American motorcycle manufacturer’s upcoming plans. First off, Harley’s new Milwaukee-Eight engine will make its way to the entire Dyna and Softail lineups, according to the leaked intel. Introduced this year in the company’s Touring and trike models, Milwaukee-Eight is an all-new engine that also stands as one of the most important steps in the evolution of Harley’s engine history. Combining traditional elements like the 45-degree V-angle and pushrod valve actuation with modern technology, the engine has four valves per cylinder while some ‘Twin-Cooled’ versions have water-cooled cylinder heads. For 2018, Harley-Davidson will be offering three versions of the Milwauke...

HISTORY OF CARS

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Unlike many other major inventions, the original idea of the automobile cannot be attributed to a single individual. The idea certainly occurred long before it was first recorded in the  Iliad , in which  Homer  (in  Alexander Pope ’s translation) states that Vulcan in a single day made 20 tricycles, which Leonardo da Vinci  considered the idea of a self-propelled vehicle in the 15th century. In 1760 a Swiss clergyman, J.H. Genevois, suggested mounting small windmills on a cartlike vehicle, their power to be used to wind springs that would move the road wheel. Genevois’s idea probably derived from a windmill  cart  of about 1714. Two-masted wind  carriages  were running in the Netherlands in 1600, and a speed of 20 miles (30 km) per hour with a load of 28 passengers was claimed for at least one of them. The first recorded suggestion of wind use was probably Robert Valturio’s unrealized plan (1472) for a cart powered by windmills geared to...